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I installed Windows 8 over an existing dual boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu. I thought, like all times, a simple grub reinstall would fix the issue. But this time something weird happened.
I ran boot-repair from a liveUSB, rebooted, but still didn't get GRUB. Then I started investigating a bit. Here's fdisk:
Windows is in sda2 and Ubuntu in sda3 (ext3). If I try to mount it:
sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
Here's parted -l:
So I'm not able to detect the file system of my Ubuntu partition!
Here's the boot-repair log:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6221718/
I then ran testdisk. Take a look:
The left window is showing the disk structure with the 'Free Space 32GB' being the Linux partition I want to recover.
On the right, the 3rd partition with label 'Linux' is the one I want to recover.
Now I'm supposed to set these drives as P, L,E,D and *. Please suggest what should I do here, I don't want to mess things up further here :S
EDIT: One thing, I'm not getting an option to select 'E' for any of the partitions. So the only options I'm able to select are P,L,D,*.
I ran boot-repair from a liveUSB, rebooted, but still didn't get GRUB. Then I started investigating a bit. Here's fdisk:
Code:
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 206848 204802047 102297600 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 204804094 283410431 39303169 5 Extended
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sda4 283410432 976773119 346681344 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda5 267788288 283410431 7811072 82 Linux swap / Solarissudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
Here's parted -l:
Code:
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot
2 106MB 105GB 105GB primary ntfs
3 105GB 145GB 40.2GB extended
5 137GB 145GB 7999MB logical linux-swap(v1)
4 145GB 500GB 355GB primary ntfsHere's the boot-repair log:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6221718/
I then ran testdisk. Take a look:
The left window is showing the disk structure with the 'Free Space 32GB' being the Linux partition I want to recover.
On the right, the 3rd partition with label 'Linux' is the one I want to recover.
Now I'm supposed to set these drives as P, L,E,D and *. Please suggest what should I do here, I don't want to mess things up further here :S
EDIT: One thing, I'm not getting an option to select 'E' for any of the partitions. So the only options I'm able to select are P,L,D,*.
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